From c95dab8ea87a917fa6626b1bad8fd3051427966c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Cullmann Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 00:38:55 +0200 Subject: thanks for breaking our apps --- .../images/fedora-40-workstation.jpg | Bin 0 -> 139062 bytes .../posts/kate-and-icons/images/fedora-40-xfce.png | Bin 0 -> 296772 bytes content/posts/kate-and-icons/index.md | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 59 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/posts/kate-and-icons/images/fedora-40-workstation.jpg create mode 100644 content/posts/kate-and-icons/images/fedora-40-xfce.png create mode 100644 content/posts/kate-and-icons/index.md diff --git a/content/posts/kate-and-icons/images/fedora-40-workstation.jpg b/content/posts/kate-and-icons/images/fedora-40-workstation.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e15bf15 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/posts/kate-and-icons/images/fedora-40-workstation.jpg differ diff --git a/content/posts/kate-and-icons/images/fedora-40-xfce.png b/content/posts/kate-and-icons/images/fedora-40-xfce.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6503590 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/posts/kate-and-icons/images/fedora-40-xfce.png differ diff --git a/content/posts/kate-and-icons/index.md b/content/posts/kate-and-icons/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0bae5ed --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/kate-and-icons/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +--- +title: "Kate & Icons" +date: 2024-05-02T00:36:00+02:00 +draft: false +categories: [kde] +tags: [kde, gnome, fdo] +url: /posts/kate-and-icons/ +author: "Christoph Cullmann" +resources: + - name: "featured-image-preview" + src: "images/fedora-40-workstation.jpg" +--- + +## How it shall look... + +### Linux & BSDs + +
+ +### Windows + +
+ +### macOS + +
+ +## State on Fedora 40 Workstation & XFCE Spin... + +Screenshots taken from the [GNOME bugtracker](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/issues/288), copies to not stall their GitLab instance. + +
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+ +I think that is rather unpleasant and for e.g. the left icon-only border just an unusable insult. + +## Why? The Adwaita Icon Theme no longer follows the FDO icon naming spec + +There was no information that they want to break away from the icon naming 'the world' does assume (given there is a [spec](https://specifications.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/latest/ar01s04.html)). +And now we have that state for our users there, at least on these spins. + +That is not that nice, we did spend a lot of work to get our applications working cross-desktop and even cross-platform and now that... + +I feel rather infuriated, finding this before going to sleep, even more after reading the feedback in the [GNOME bugtracker](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/issues/288) and that this is just closed as 'so be it'. + +They added now at least a hint to the README: + +[**Private UI icon set for GNOME core apps.**](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/commit/ad605446a829420b659c7f360333e4309a8f4a55) + +Ok, I assume that is then all fine. + +No, it is not. + +Then please don't install it as FDO icon theme and break all FOSS apps that rely on the naming spec... + +If you care for non 'GNOME core apps' to work per default properly on distributions like that, please either get them to fix it (hints are given in the [linked issue](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/issues/288)) or get the distributions to install a compliant theme. + +We can plan to work around this mess in [the future](https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kiconthemes/-/issues/3) on our side, but that will not un-break the application versions that are now already shipped to our users and non-KDE frameworks based stuff that will just run into the same issues. -- cgit v1.2.3